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| Feb 28, 2007 4:12 pm |
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re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Sanadhana Dharma Part III |
Ganesh Ram
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Gyro,
first of all, I do not accept any religion that puts its faith on a single person. The reason could be because How I view what religion is.
My problem with relating to Krishna is what I know of him. I am just uncomfortable. I am not judging krishna here. All I am saying is I am unable to accept the theory of everything being krishna as I am with everything is Jesus or Allah.
IMO, the concept of vegetarianism came into existence only in those places where Jainism thrived. This was suited to what certain Hindu cults dealt with in their everyday life and therefore was added into hinduism.
When the cow is venerable why the Horse was not? Horse sacrifice is one of the things that had happened in Ashwamedha yAgA was it not?
Why are the silkworms not? We are ready to wear and make our gods wear silk taken by killing silkworms and taking their cocoons but do not treat silkworms venerable.Why?
We are ready to give honey to our gods as well as the source, the flower, and yet push the bees out of their home to extract the honey. Why?
We are ready to kill the rats and yet treat one of its cousins as a transport to one of the gods. Why?
In fact those who do the cross thread ceremony would see that the thread worn upon initiation has a Tiger skin. And yet tiger is put at par as a transport. Why?
Fish, Matsya as we know from the avatAr, was not forbidden from being a food for the common man. We know for sure from the stories of Ramayana, that there were people who at fish and gave that to Rama too.
IMO, many of our practices specifically religious ones came out of our symbiotic relationship with nature. Whichever group within a religion found it needs this relationship with certain aspects added it as a "rule" in the religion in their area. That is why we were ok with giving animal sacrifice in some hindu temples till late 1960s-1970s.
As for the Ayappa thingy, The phenomenon of Ayappa itself would have started around 1200 AD not before that. People of other religious faiths were coming into India. There might have been a need to protect Tiger population. Private Reply to Ganesh Ram (new win) |
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